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REAL ART WEST: Art a la mode by Alexandra Rosa (Don't forget - Check out the Picked RAW choices for month) RAW June 2009
This is your invitation! San Diego Visual Arts Network presents Little & Large with over 90 Artists creating a Sculpture and related Jewelry for display at 41 Venues County Wide. The Little & Large Launch Party is Wednesday, July 8, 7 – 9 pm at Sīrĕn 4 th Floor pool deck of the Sè Hotel , 1047 5 th Avenue at Broadway, SD 92101. This reception is open to the public with a no host bar benefiting San Diego Visual Arts Network. There will be two “Little” runway shows. You can perform in your own Flipbook. Please plan to stay late for hotel entertainment starting at 9 pm. All venue details available on www.SDVAN.net alphabetically by venue location and by artist.. Watch for Little & Large near you starting in June through Dec, 2009 A CATALOG with images of the works is now available to download for free on SDVAN.Besides this launch for the entire promotion there are Group Launches by Location for Little & Large. Most venues are having RECEPTIONS that are open to the public. Many of the areas have receptions on the same night. La Jolla, First Friday Fri. July 3, North Park, Ray at Night Fri. July 3 , North Park Nights Sat July 18 (Some venues, Sat, June 20/Sat August 8) , North County Inland Sat July 11 , Solana Beach , Cedros Design District Third Thurs, July 16 and El Cajon , Alley Cat Art Walk Sat. July 18. More info: info@sdvisualarts.net 760.943.0148 We are delighted to announce a new sponsor for Little & Large: VeeV is The World's First Açaí Spirit™ and is simply a better way to drink™. Açaí (pronounced ah-SIGH-ee) is the exotic tasting Brazilian national fruit popularized by surfers and sports enthusiasts, and is thought to be the healthiest fruit on the planet by the likes of Oprah Winfrey who recently named açaí her #1 superfood. In the spirit of allowing consumers to enjoy tonight and save tomorrow, VeeV donates $1 per bottle sold to Rainforest preservation through The Sustainable Açaí Project and is proud to be the only certified carbon neutral spirits company in the world. You can enjoy VeeV at all times at the Sè Hotel. June's Sight & Sound ( 3811 Ray Street, SD 92104) presented by Walk the Walk on Sat. June 27 at 7 pm features seven creative performances, including rock band Apes of Wrath, provocative song & dance from Caburlesque Kittens, and didgeridu master Mitchell Walker. The ten exhibitors include House of Blues giving away free tickets to their July calendar, SDVAN's upcoming Little & Large launch party, and live painting from Brent Tilton. Proceeds from Sight & Sound benefit the Autism Research Institute. Attendees must be at least 21 years old; complimentary beverage with paid admission before 8:00 pm. More info: Jon Block/Adam Rosen 619.846.7180/85 Please remember the SD Art Prize 2009: Kim MacConnel and emerging artist Brian Dick at the L Street Gallery 628 L Street, San Diego, 92101 (Across from the Omni Hotel) Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm until June 26. There is a special walk through of the show: Talking to Myself: A conversation with Brian Dick on Thurs. June 25, 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Scott White Contemporary Art has produced a very classy catalog which is available to see as a PDF. Welcome to the 21 st century. The next session of New Century Media ( link to marketing class description) is in July. This is a class by John Hiemstra, founder San Diego Finishing School. More info 619. 654. 6208 Lyceum Theatre was the venue for the Pose 2's collaboration with SD's Culture Shock's Dance Theatrical. The program called Graffiti Life; the Color of my Sole was the first graffiti dance, music, theater collaboration that we have heard of right her in SD. Congratulations to all the participants. Molly Whittake r went to the SDUSD Board meeting to help save the arts in our schools. She sent this report, “The meeting lasted from 8:30AM to 8:30PM! The school board was able to save the Visual and Performing Arts Department, as well as athletics, but there were cuts made to special ed, the school day is being shortened, and the price of school lunches is increasing, among other cuts. The board said they received over 1,000 emails. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write an email!” Congratulations to Cheryl Ehlers for creating Stardust Arts and for receiving a Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation Grant. She is starting to teach in the Oceanside School district as well as offering an art program for the elderly. You will have a chance to visit the Iris and Matthew Strauss collection if you join the new Gotthelf Gallery at the SD Center for Jewish Culture in La Jolla. Save the date August 16 at 4 pm. 858.362.1144 June brides could have an extra treat with a custom designed cake topper couple by Pamela Jaeger. Check out her Yartsale on Esty. There is a wonderful interview of Jeffery Laudenslager, the kinetic sculptor from Encinitas posted by his SF gallery Sculpturesite. It would be nice to see more of these interviews from our local galleries. One of Laudenslager's new pieces went up this month at Family Health Centers of San Diego ( 823 Gateway Center Way, SD 92102). It was generously donated by Chuck Betlach II. The City of Encinitas Commission for the Arts, working through the city’s Arts Administrator, Jim Gilliam, maintains two civic art galleries in the library: in the lobby and Community Room. The National Association of Counties (NACo) has given a Best in Category Achievement Award to the Encinitas Library art program in the category, Arts and Historic Preservation for this the art program. Congratulation to Jim Gilliam, the Encinitas Library art program and to Pam Slater Price who will accept the award at the NACo Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The William D. Cannon Art Gallery presents the 2009 Cannon Invitational, an exhibition featuring the work of Joseph Bennett, David Fobes, Tara Smith and Duke Windsor. These four artists were selected by the Gallery’s Curator of Exhibitions, Karen McGuire, from the 26 artists featured in The 2009 Juried Biennial exhibition. The exhibition opens June 28 and continues through August 18 at the Carlsbad City Library Complex, 1775 Dove Lane at El Camino Real. If you are lucky enough to have a www.Zhibit.org website (as little as $1 a month) you can now link that site to your Facebook pages. Brian Willis is a genius! You can also use Zhibit. biz for non-art businesses. The first of what will hopefully eventually be dozens of artists and designers in residence at NTC Promenade are moving into the newly renovated Art & Design studios in historic Barracks 19 at NTC Promenade. Core Design Studio , Kenneth Greene Photography & Design , Patrick Meehan Fine Art, Pantaleoni Photography and artist Petar Barbaros will move into their studios starting in June. We are happy to see these spaces filling up with art related businesses. Sunday's Art in the Alley takes place on the last Sunday of the month in Artists Alley,OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) What is it about Cats in July: Catnip Connection is July 8 - 20 at Spanish Village Art Center/Gallery 21. If you want a full prospectus contact Vicky DeLong 619.850.6637. And Alley Cat Art Summer Fest in El Cajon is Fri, July 17 and Sat, July 18 th. Lauren Becker Downey is launching a new School of Art in central San Diego and is looking for several very good qualified artists to teach art to adults or children. The school’s structure will primarily be 1-day workshops in fine art, craft and home decorating. 619.696.1557 In partnership with the El Cajon Redevelopment Agency, El Cajon CDC is looking for talented local artists to transform ordinary utility boxes into works of public art for all to enjoy. If you're an art lover and/or community enthusiast, volunteer your artistic talent to UArt: Downtown El Cajon's Utility Art Box Program, and become part of the Downtown landscape for years to come! The UArt submission deadline is July 30, 2009 at 5:00pm. The Guide to Painting a Utility Box is now available. Contact Christina Burke 619.401.8858 for info. Oceanside Arts Commission is making a call for outdoor sculptures for a juried competition for professional and non-professional artists, $2,000 Best of Show, $1,000 2nd Place, $500 for Honorable Mention and $500 for People's Choice. The work will be shown Aug 24 to Sept 18 but entries are due July 10. More info: Janene Shepherd 760.435.3062 There is a Lemon Grove office space available for rent in front of Sews and Shows Community Theater. Approximately 240 square feet, this space has its own parking lot and heavy foot traffic. Rent includes utilities. Ideal for jewelry, advertising agency, gallery. Location has a permit for performances. Has 2 restrooms and is ADA compliance. Producer utilizes theatre in rear of building. Rent based on hours of operation. Range $650 - $800. More info: Deebone 619.978.2000 who also has a Studio for Rent in College/Oak Park with 500 square feet available for $650. The San Diego Art Department is pleased to announce their first Open Call Fundraiser Exhibition, The Art of Transitions. The world is full of transitions, whether it is internal or external, we are all affected by the passage from one form, state, style or place to another. All entries are to be no bigger than 12" X 12", properly wired, ready to hang and may be of any medium. The entry fee is (for Non-Members) $10 for one entry, $15 for two, $20 for three. The purpose of this fundraiser is to update and revamp class equipment and facilities. August 1, 2009 is the drop-off deadline and August 15, 2009 is the awards reception and opening reception. For more info: 619-299-4278 or info@sdartdept.com C.O.A.L. Art Gallery Open Juried Show isreceiving work on July 25. This is a show put on by the Carlsbad-Oceanside Art League. More info: Josephina DiSalvo Pu 760.434.8497 MUSEUMS 2009 Oceanside Museum of Art Museum Ball on July 25 is featuring The Mar Dels at The Palm Club. The evening begins at 6:00 p.m. with a champagne reception at OMA and continues at the Civic Center Plaza for dinner and entertainment. Reservations are $200 per person, which is a wonderful way to support the cultural arts in the community with a fabulous, memorable evening. The Museum Ball is also the occasion to honor members of the museum and the community who have made a significant contribution to the success of Oceanside Museum of Art. This year the “Medal of Distinction” will be presented to John and Gail De Salvo. Curiosity is the name of a benefit auction for the Center for the Arts, Escondido on July 11, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. This will be a decadent evening of dinner, drinks, entertainment as well as the rare opportunity to paint your own artwork directly onto the Museum walls. The event includes a silent auction of over 30 works of contemporary art by a selection of renowned local artists (Jean Lowe is one we know about), as well as a variety of unique items and experiences. $85 per person, non-members, $75 per person, members. More info: 760.839.4120 Self-taught artist Sonabai Rajawar lived in enforced isolation for 15 years in a remote village in central India, creating her own joyous sculptural environment. Through the necessity of expressing her own vision in the face of tremendous adversity, Sonabai developed her innovative art form, which she later taught to other artists. Today in the remote rural villages of her central Indian state, many other artists practice Sonabai’s art in painted clay. Sonabai — Another Way of Seeing opens at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park on Sun, July 26 and continues through Sept 5, 2010. Kevin Freitas pointed out an article in the Los Angeles times which reported that in late January, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, loaned out masterpieces from its collection to the Bellagio which is a casino on the Las Vegas strip. The rental from a nonprofit museum to a commercial enterprise violates various professional museum standards, but Dr. Huge Davies has implied that with the Las Vegas Museum of Art closing it doors, this is a chance for Las Vegas residents and visitors to see work of quality. We are assured that the works will be physically safe, which is another large concern. Anther blow to Las Vegas, when Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, chairman and chief executive of the private investment firm Tamares Group, canceled plans to build a $12-million contemporary art museum in an old fingerprinting building on East Fremont Street downtown. You can ask him about this yourself when Dr. Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and a Francis Bacon scholar, will lecture on Bacon on Thurs., July 16, 2009 at 7 pm at the Museum's La Jolla location. The lecture is $5 general admission and free to MCASD Members and students. This lecture coincides with NY Metropolitan Museum of Art's Francis Bacon Retrospective. A very early save the date for Club Monte Carlo which is the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's 33rd annual gala. Advance notice for this night of high style-revelry on Sat, Sept 12, 2009 at MCASD's oceanfront La Jolla location. More info: 858.454.3541 One more about MCASD: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego announced today that it received a grant of $750,000 from The James Irvine Foundation through its highly competitive Arts Innovation Fund grant program. The grant will support the implementation of MCASD's labFORUM -- an innovative, transformative, and institutionally radical shift from the notion of MCASD as one museum with multiple locations (all doing essentially the same thing) to an institution with two distinct locations (the Lab in downtown San Diego and the Forum in La Jolla) each with different identities. Don’t forget the San Diego Museum of Art brings together for the first time almost 200 political portraits by Richard Avedon, America’s pre-eminent portrait and fashion photographer, in Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power. Juxtaposing images of government, media, and labor officials with photographs of activists, pop-culture icons, and ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, this exhibition explores a five-decade photographic inquiry into politics and power by one of the country’s best-known artists. TRANSITIONS 4 Walls Gallery in North Park has closed after a wonderful run of shows. TIDBITS Using your iphone to make art has now come of age. An art work made this way was used on the cover of the New Yorker magazine and you can see a brief video about it on Yahoo Video News. Do you want a good overview of the art market? Then check out the video put out by Sotheby’s Very interesting to see how they spin this economic time and they are very clever and believable. A Calder went in the last May sale for $3.4 million, three times its estimate! The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Litoral region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada ( Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). Built from salvaged materials, including modified Mercedes car motors with long-tail propellers, the boats’ crew is made up of 30 collaborating artists from the United States. How cool is that! The owners of the W Hotel could not pay their mortgage and have had to hand the hotel over to the bank. What a huge pity if the hotel is no longer functioning as it has been the site of many art related events. We hope the economy and tourism turns around soon. We are in collaborations with the Sè Hotel and the Grand Del Mar, both new and needing as much support as possible. The 3rd Zone: Consistent Inconsistency is a show curated by Gerda Govine-Ituarte at Avenue 50 Studio, Inc., which is a non-profit art gallery in Highland Park. This is an interesting show as it features artists creating works about the 3rd Zone, a space and place corralled by the Tijuana-San Diego border - the busiest and most utilized land crossing in the world. See the show until July 5. More info: 323.258.1435.
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